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Sanakhte (2686-2668)

Sanakhte (2686-2668), Sanakhte known as Nebka (in Greek known as Mesochris), was the first pharaoh of the Third Dynasty of Ancient Egypt (ruled from 2686 to 2668 BC). Sanakhte's name means 'biting protection'. He presumably gained his arrange by matrimony to a daughter of Khasekhemwy, his predecessor as pharaoh; the kingship even at this early episode being accepted down through the female line. While Sanakhte's being is attested by a mastaba tomb and a graffito among other items, his location as the initiator of the Third Dynasty of Ancient Egypt as recorded by Manetho and the Turin Canon Kings List has been acutely undermined by topical archaeological discoveries at Abydos. They ascertain beyond disbelief that it was instead Djoser who helped conceal -- and hence -- follow Khasekhemwy from seals found at the admission to the last's tomb behavior Djoser's name. (see Toby Wilkinson in Early Dynastic Egypt, (1999), p.83 & 95). It appears that Nebka was instead a later king of the Third Dynasty instead. In addition, different Djoser, few leftovers endure from Sanakhte's reign which also casts acute doubts on Manetho and the Turin Canon's traditional amount of an 18 year for this king. It must be stressed that the Turin Canon and Manetho were more than one and two thousand years detached from the time of Egypt's early Third Dynasty and would be estimated to delimit more inaccurate or unreliable facts. The Turin Canon, for command, was transcribed on papyri which dates to the reign of the New Kingdom king Ramses II who ruled Egypt from 1279-1213 BC. A large mastaba near Abydos enclosed fragments attitude his name. It also enclosed gaunt carcass, which may have been that of this king. Manetho credits a king by this name as being a particularly tall man, which is borne out by the ashes that were found.  
 
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